I loaded Kazaa onto a computer of mine and used etherpeek to check the incoming and out going traffic. It turned out that at certain times the spyware traffic was enough to clog a standard 56K modem. If this hacked version works, I'll be more glad about the increased bandwidth that is freed up than who gets to look at the webpages I visit.
I, for one, am thrilled. The number of of games taht were near impossible to work with the older WINE was keeping windowns on my machine. If this works as well as I've heard, w0ot!
The Tattered Cover may not be in the right. The first amendment protects speech, religion, and the right to openly demonstrate those. It does not protect the right to privacy. I can certainly understand the bookstores reluctance to give out its customer's purchasing records, but if the government has a warrant there might not be much that can be done. I would assume this falls under the fourth amendment about search and seizure.
While the end of the company isn't all that great. Darwin's evolution continues. It seems that this will release quite a few well trained, intelligent people into the job market that have quite a bit of experience. Given that the article also says handhelds were one of their specialities, I'd like to see some linux experts go to work for palm and try to revive it. Not necessarily with a linux OS, but use some aspects of linux to improve the palm OS and make it able to compete with WinCE more readily. Quite a few people agree with me that palm's OS is already superior, but that doesn't make it automatically a winner in the market place.
I Wonder when they will start making some games for Texas Instrument's line of calculators. If the TI-92 can do multivariable calculus, it should be able to play some really decent games. Doom anyone?
In most cases, the manufacturer of most sports cars (corvette, etc.) has a liscensed third party like shelby for Ford. These suppliers and aftermarket manufacturers have certin chips that can be installed without ruining you entire warrenty. Sometimes, the warrenty is just modified to take out the changed part of the car.
NO, they don't. Most of the time, the artist or record company sends their music record free of charge in an attempt to get air play for the music. This amounts to low cost advertising for the artist.
Personally, I don't understand why record companies want to charge for webcasts or why they think they are entitled to. AM and FM have always been free after price of equipment (a radio). A webcast is simply the progression of this using new technology. From the point of view of the artist, I would want my songs to get as much air (and web) play as possible in an attempt to sell more records, tapes, cds, minidiscs, dvds, etc. All casts, that is streaming music whose content is not decided by the listener directly, should be free. That, is the entire point of advertising. Don't make people pay for the ads, which music on a cast is for the artist's cds anyway.
Microsoft says the opensource model doesn't work because they don't want an opensource model. It might be inconcievable to the rest of us, but there are some people that favor an extreme capitalist system and don't want software, among other things, to be shared for free. If microsoft doesn't like that, good for them. My only critizicism of microsoft is how they berate other ways to thinking, specifically opensource. It's this closed minded approach to others that really makes microsoft the evil giant many people think of.
Everyone seems to like VNC, but there are a few drawbacks. Mainly you need a decently fast internet connection to use it with a GUI, otherwise it's too slow for most things. If you are running windows, then I recomend Citrix which is available if you run win2000. You get the same functionality, but it has been streamlined for 56K modems and since you want the most functionality in the most conditions, you have to assume you will only have dialup on the road. I have found it much easier on the eyes than VNC when a slow connection was involved.
The idea is great, the excecution of it would be even better, but I fear he will have problems. As in an earlier article on slashdot where a company claimed that all work done by their employees was company property and forbid the participation in open source development. Here Somehow I fear that a television station may claim the rights to his show and sue him for giving it away to other stations without charging anything and making money for the original airer of the show.
Given this most recent development. What is the chance that other local governments will follow suit and not only stop prosecution but actually ask for help in matters such as these? A smart investor would get ORBZ back on its feet and use them as a security firm that specializes in government systems. Using this whole ordeal as credentials would be the best solution.
First off, it is truly cool that it was able to be done. I'm a huge fan of accomplishing anything while using extraordinary and/or unusual means. The only drawback I feel is the resolution of game movement limited by the medium. Not the screen resolution, but the square grid that any kind of output in a text based grid has to conform to. Since any movement is limited to the eight nearest squares, games on order of a simple flash game probably cannot be acheived. Not the fault of the designer, just a drawback to the medium. Other than that, rock on!
In this instance, the russians have the right idea, their Rokot booster follows the market to a tea. As a general rule, private companies have used for smaller and therefore cheaper rockets with up to a 20 ton cargo capacity. It is this private investment that will make space travle feasible. The governemnts of the world cannot simply fund a continuing space progam to the fullest extent and other sources must be sought. Big rockets may be better for space travel to Mars and the like, but the demand now is for smaller ones and that may be how Russia gets its feet off the ground (literally).
Actually, I own two Macintosh computers. One is a 6100/60 PowerPC running Yellow Dog linux, and the other is an old iMac running OSX. I personally love Macs and just want them to succeed and I know from personal experience (read: I am in marketing) that there is much more money to be made in the low end of the spectrum.
They do, I have successfully used an iPod with a PC several times. The official support may not be there, but anyone with a decent knowledge in computers (read: slashdot crowd) could do it in a second. In my experience, it shows up as a removable harddrive.
All the advances are good and fine, but the increase in the iMac category may really hurt. I realize that the increase in necessary becuase of the increased costs, but the iMac is what makes Macinctosh a viable comeptitor. The G4 and soon to be G5 towers are excellent, but only cover a very small demographic and their high cost makes them prohibitive. The lower cost iMac can go head to head with most PCs and in some cases, offer a better value. While I agree that the high end computers are more fun and interesting (from a marketing/sales perspective). The lower cost machines are what is going to make money. Something that I believe Apple is still desprately in need of. It may be a smarter move to swallow the increased costs for the time being and attempt to move more volume.
You are correct, but when i did a cursory search for information on what happened to the rockets afterwards, all I could find pointed to the fact that the plans never when through. This means that these giant rockets are still somewhere in existance, but unused. Thus my suggestion.
It said a few still exist in working order. They should update them so they don't blow up (i.e. no 'catastrophic failure') and use them as payload rockets to launch unmanned supplies to, and pieces of, the international space station. Since they are already built, it will save quite a bit of money instead of the space shuttle doing most of the work. As it is, the space shuttle has been forced way beyond its original retirement date.
Most likely, some equipment picked it up. The problem is that there are not enough people and computing power to monitor it all. With the exception of the seti@home experiment and other distributed computing projects, all the telescopes and observatories on earth can only monitor approximately 1% of the sky at any given time. When you take this into consideration, I'd bet that there have been several meteors that have gone unnoticed completely. In this case, Ignorance truly is bliss.
No, I mean 128 MegaBytes of memory on the graphics card. It was during the time that nvidia released 3D accelerator daughter cards that could be daisy chained four at a time and broadband meant dual modems that used two phonelines at once.
I remember when Number nine came out with the first consumer level graphics card to use 128MB of memory. There was no GPU, but you has an almost infinite amount of resolution settings. And that was over two years ago.
Does anyone else find this hysterical? I was going to attempt a thoughtful commentary, but there is just something about the highest office in the company not being able to access records. This maybe a very sad case of business today, but I still believe that the absurdity of what is happening, and the humor, cannot be denied. ROTFL
Somehow, I doubt the government's good intentions. If they are supplying encryption, free to everyone, it must be for some reason. I would conjecture either because it has a backdoor that the government already knows about. Or, the strength of the encryption is within their grasp to crack and therefore, this free program will inhibit further encryption growth and research. Who would want to spend money on something, if it's already free? This doesn't sound like a pure philanthropic endeavor.
The best feature about Mandrake 8.1 is that it took about half the time to install as Windows 2000 and was probably the easiest install for linux. This may not seem like much for computer geeks (the slashdot crowd), but it is vital for getting linux on more personal desktops. If linux is ever going to survive in its current form, it needs to be a viable competitor with Microsoft. I can only hope that Mandrake 8.2 continues the trend of the other Mandrakes before it.
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I loaded Kazaa onto a computer of mine and used etherpeek to check the incoming and out going traffic. It turned out that at certain times the spyware traffic was enough to clog a standard 56K modem. If this hacked version works, I'll be more glad about the increased bandwidth that is freed up than who gets to look at the webpages I visit.
I, for one, am thrilled. The number of of games taht were near impossible to work with the older WINE was keeping windowns on my machine. If this works as well as I've heard, w0ot!
The Tattered Cover may not be in the right. The first amendment protects speech, religion, and the right to openly demonstrate those. It does not protect the right to privacy. I can certainly understand the bookstores reluctance to give out its customer's purchasing records, but if the government has a warrant there might not be much that can be done. I would assume this falls under the fourth amendment about search and seizure.
While the end of the company isn't all that great. Darwin's evolution continues. It seems that this will release quite a few well trained, intelligent people into the job market that have quite a bit of experience. Given that the article also says handhelds were one of their specialities, I'd like to see some linux experts go to work for palm and try to revive it. Not necessarily with a linux OS, but use some aspects of linux to improve the palm OS and make it able to compete with WinCE more readily. Quite a few people agree with me that palm's OS is already superior, but that doesn't make it automatically a winner in the market place.
I Wonder when they will start making some games for Texas Instrument's line of calculators. If the TI-92 can do multivariable calculus, it should be able to play some really decent games. Doom anyone?
In most cases, the manufacturer of most sports cars (corvette, etc.) has a liscensed third party like shelby for Ford. These suppliers and aftermarket manufacturers have certin chips that can be installed without ruining you entire warrenty. Sometimes, the warrenty is just modified to take out the changed part of the car.
NO, they don't. Most of the time, the artist or record company sends their music record free of charge in an attempt to get air play for the music. This amounts to low cost advertising for the artist.
Personally, I don't understand why record companies want to charge for webcasts or why they think they are entitled to. AM and FM have always been free after price of equipment (a radio). A webcast is simply the progression of this using new technology. From the point of view of the artist, I would want my songs to get as much air (and web) play as possible in an attempt to sell more records, tapes, cds, minidiscs, dvds, etc. All casts, that is streaming music whose content is not decided by the listener directly, should be free. That, is the entire point of advertising. Don't make people pay for the ads, which music on a cast is for the artist's cds anyway.
Microsoft says the opensource model doesn't work because they don't want an opensource model. It might be inconcievable to the rest of us, but there are some people that favor an extreme capitalist system and don't want software, among other things, to be shared for free. If microsoft doesn't like that, good for them. My only critizicism of microsoft is how they berate other ways to thinking, specifically opensource. It's this closed minded approach to others that really makes microsoft the evil giant many people think of.
Everyone seems to like VNC, but there are a few drawbacks. Mainly you need a decently fast internet connection to use it with a GUI, otherwise it's too slow for most things. If you are running windows, then I recomend Citrix which is available if you run win2000. You get the same functionality, but it has been streamlined for 56K modems and since you want the most functionality in the most conditions, you have to assume you will only have dialup on the road. I have found it much easier on the eyes than VNC when a slow connection was involved.
The idea is great, the excecution of it would be even better, but I fear he will have problems. As in an earlier article on slashdot where a company claimed that all work done by their employees was company property and forbid the participation in open source development. Here Somehow I fear that a television station may claim the rights to his show and sue him for giving it away to other stations without charging anything and making money for the original airer of the show.
Given this most recent development. What is the chance that other local governments will follow suit and not only stop prosecution but actually ask for help in matters such as these? A smart investor would get ORBZ back on its feet and use them as a security firm that specializes in government systems. Using this whole ordeal as credentials would be the best solution.
First off, it is truly cool that it was able to be done. I'm a huge fan of accomplishing anything while using extraordinary and/or unusual means. The only drawback I feel is the resolution of game movement limited by the medium. Not the screen resolution, but the square grid that any kind of output in a text based grid has to conform to. Since any movement is limited to the eight nearest squares, games on order of a simple flash game probably cannot be acheived. Not the fault of the designer, just a drawback to the medium. Other than that, rock on!
In this instance, the russians have the right idea, their Rokot booster follows the market to a tea. As a general rule, private companies have used for smaller and therefore cheaper rockets with up to a 20 ton cargo capacity. It is this private investment that will make space travle feasible. The governemnts of the world cannot simply fund a continuing space progam to the fullest extent and other sources must be sought. Big rockets may be better for space travel to Mars and the like, but the demand now is for smaller ones and that may be how Russia gets its feet off the ground (literally).
Actually, I own two Macintosh computers. One is a 6100/60 PowerPC running Yellow Dog linux, and the other is an old iMac running OSX. I personally love Macs and just want them to succeed and I know from personal experience (read: I am in marketing) that there is much more money to be made in the low end of the spectrum.
They do, I have successfully used an iPod with a PC several times. The official support may not be there, but anyone with a decent knowledge in computers (read: slashdot crowd) could do it in a second. In my experience, it shows up as a removable harddrive.
All the advances are good and fine, but the increase in the iMac category may really hurt. I realize that the increase in necessary becuase of the increased costs, but the iMac is what makes Macinctosh a viable comeptitor. The G4 and soon to be G5 towers are excellent, but only cover a very small demographic and their high cost makes them prohibitive. The lower cost iMac can go head to head with most PCs and in some cases, offer a better value. While I agree that the high end computers are more fun and interesting (from a marketing/sales perspective). The lower cost machines are what is going to make money. Something that I believe Apple is still desprately in need of. It may be a smarter move to swallow the increased costs for the time being and attempt to move more volume.
You are correct, but when i did a cursory search for information on what happened to the rockets afterwards, all I could find pointed to the fact that the plans never when through. This means that these giant rockets are still somewhere in existance, but unused. Thus my suggestion.
It said a few still exist in working order. They should update them so they don't blow up (i.e. no 'catastrophic failure') and use them as payload rockets to launch unmanned supplies to, and pieces of, the international space station. Since they are already built, it will save quite a bit of money instead of the space shuttle doing most of the work. As it is, the space shuttle has been forced way beyond its original retirement date.
Most likely, some equipment picked it up. The problem is that there are not enough people and computing power to monitor it all. With the exception of the seti@home experiment and other distributed computing projects, all the telescopes and observatories on earth can only monitor approximately 1% of the sky at any given time. When you take this into consideration, I'd bet that there have been several meteors that have gone unnoticed completely. In this case, Ignorance truly is bliss.
No, I mean 128 MegaBytes of memory on the graphics card. It was during the time that nvidia released 3D accelerator daughter cards that could be daisy chained four at a time and broadband meant dual modems that used two phonelines at once.
I remember when Number nine came out with the first consumer level graphics card to use 128MB of memory. There was no GPU, but you has an almost infinite amount of resolution settings. And that was over two years ago.
Does anyone else find this hysterical? I was going to attempt a thoughtful commentary, but there is just something about the highest office in the company not being able to access records. This maybe a very sad case of business today, but I still believe that the absurdity of what is happening, and the humor, cannot be denied. ROTFL
Somehow, I doubt the government's good intentions. If they are supplying encryption, free to everyone, it must be for some reason. I would conjecture either because it has a backdoor that the government already knows about. Or, the strength of the encryption is within their grasp to crack and therefore, this free program will inhibit further encryption growth and research. Who would want to spend money on something, if it's already free? This doesn't sound like a pure philanthropic endeavor.
The best feature about Mandrake 8.1 is that it took about half the time to install as Windows 2000 and was probably the easiest install for linux. This may not seem like much for computer geeks (the slashdot crowd), but it is vital for getting linux on more personal desktops. If linux is ever going to survive in its current form, it needs to be a viable competitor with Microsoft. I can only hope that Mandrake 8.2 continues the trend of the other Mandrakes before it.